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    Bayesian Word Learning in Multiple Language Environments
    with Benjamin D. Zinszer, Sebi V. Rolotti, and Ping Li
    Cognitive Science 42 (S2): 439-462. 2018.
    Infant language learners are faced with the difficult inductive problem of determining how new words map to novel or known objects in their environment. Bayesian inference models have been successful at using the sparse information available in natural child-directed speech to build candidate lexicons and infer speakers’ referential intentions. We begin by asking how a Bayesian model optimized for monolingual input generalizes to new monolingual or bilingual corpora and find that, especially in …Read more
  •  9
    The central thesis of the dissertation is that in the Phaedrus philosophy is presented as a kind of madness in a strict sense, that is to say, the claim is not that philosophy is necessarily unappreciated by the many, hence considered by their standards as insane, but that the philosophical soul is in a way not in rational control, but in a state of mind that can fairly be defined as madness, and that the philosophical life is arranged in order to visit or revisit this state of mind. Socrates’ a…Read more
  •  9
    Developmental Differences of Structural Connectivity and Effective Connectivity in Semantic Judgments of Chinese Characters
    with Yu-Chun Lo, Yung-Chin Hsu, Yu-Jen Chen, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng, and Tai-Li Chou
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14. 2020.
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    A scoping review of the moral distress of military nurses in crisis military deployment
    with Juan Chen, Xiaomeng Hu, Pu Yang, and Ying He
    Nursing Ethics 30 (7-8): 922-938. 2023.
    Background “Crisis military deployment” was defined as a situation in which military personnel are suddenly ordered to duty to support an operation away from their home station and in a potentially dangerous environment. As a result of complex changes in the global political and economic landscape, military nurses are assuming an increasing number of crisis military deployment tasks. Moral distress has been widely studied among civilian nurses. However, little is known about the moral distress m…Read more